My "Grand Opening".

[Donnie]

Welcome to the forum Mychael! Enjoy your kilts as much as possible!

[Chris@southerncelt.com]

Welcome Mychael. I believe I've spoken with you before?

[richardljohnson]

..."one of us" (nutcases)...

I resemble that remark Graham!

Welcome to the group Mychael. I am courious..."My interests include fermenting"...Wine, beer or something else?

I use to do both as a hobby and my wife thought I was crazy when I said that I was down to 25gal of beer and 40 bottles of wine! You name it I had it. I don't do it anymore...damm low carb diet...but I am still interested in what others are up to.

Well, welcome to the crazyness...

RLJ-

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Mychael... wecome to XMarks from the right side of Pennsylvania.

I was playing the Adams County Irish Festival this weekend and saw a Pittsburgh Kilt first-hand... good stuff!

Hopefully, I'll catch you at one of the PA Festivals that we're playing at, or see you down on the strip in Pitt (as I'm there everyother week). I do love the Harp and Fiddle!

[Kiltedmusiclover]

Mychael,

Glad to have you on the board. A big welcome from
way down south in old North Carolina. Excellent
post, way to dive in head first.

[Blu (Ontario)]

Mychael, Cheers! from Ontario.

[Aaron]

Welcome Mychael,

Wow, kilts and alcohol. They just seem to go together don't they? As it would happen, I've just mixed my very first batch of "hootch" and it's fermenting as we speak. First kilts, then homebrew. My wife must think I'm losing it.

(Not afraid of emoticons, just clowns...)

[Mychael Sporrano]

I see now that I should have made this post in the spot reserved for Newbies- that category didn't catch my eye when I started this dialogue. Regardless, what a warm welcome I have received!

A few of you asked about my fermentation comment (Richard, Murphy)... Before the kids came along, I was an avid homebrewer and wine maker. I still have gallons and gallons of Merlot and Cab [made from premium CA frozen grapes] aging in the cellar that I need to blend. I also love baking and did so professionally. Sourdough and salt rising bread also qualify as fermenting in my book, and I have to admit that if it were at all practical and I wasn't afeared of the revenuers poking about, or an untimely explosion, I would probably have a pot still of some sort. Ironically, I am simply not much of a drinker... That said, I do love my draught Guinness and Hoegaarden. Re: the former, I might have to make a point of running into you at the Strip, Jimmy Carbomb.

I see a lot of you have little galleries of pics on site here. Excellent! I'll have to see if I cannot wrangle up a digital camera and offer up a few images of my own.

On waiting for a kilt... I feel like a kid again waiting for Christmas to come around! One reputable brick and mortar Edinburgh establishment very rarely returns my emails or even phone calls, and when an email is returned it is one from weeks ago that isn't even relevant anymore. I have gone so far as to write an actual letter and send it via snail mail-still no response. I have even tried unsuccessfully to have items added to my order! Very strange experience. After 10 weeks of waiting, when delivery of an outfit was promised one month ago, I am more than frustrated and actually rather helpless.

Kinloch Anderson said they would notify me when they shipped my other outfit. That order is hung up waiting for a waistcoat for my wife. At least they are capable of communication. Very good service, there.

As for our good friend Bear, when I emailed to have one of those nice torc kilt pins he was offering yesterday added to my order, he informed me to expect an 8-12 week wait for my pair of kilts. It sounds like Bear will have to stay awake all winter to keep up with the increase in biz his purportedly excellent products have seen. Feast or famine.

I do want to recognize Chris here. Yes, Southern Celt Man, we *have* corresponded recently. Chris impressed me as someone with whom I would gladly do business. He was prompt to return emails, knowledgeable about his product, and came off as scrupulous. I am sure that he and I will have something in the works at some point in the future.

Murphy, I am sorry that I cannot allay your fears- clowns are indeed suspect. Be wary.


Thank you again for the wonderful welcome and for your indulgence!

Mychael

[Bill]

Welcome to this fine kilted mob Mychael.

It is hard to anything halfway when it comes to wearing the kilt. It seems that one is condemed (sweetly I would think) to be constantly trying to get "the look" right whether it is formal or casual.
So enjoy yourself!

BTW interesting spelling to the name I don't think I've ever seen it before.

Bill

[Mychael Sporrano]

Yes, Bill, my wife has pointed out more than once that I do not seem to undertake anything half heartedly!

As for my name, I had never seen another occasion of it until very recently when, out of curiousity, I plugged it into a search engine and found a performer using the same spelling.

Mychael